The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said it secured commitments from Blue Energy and Crusoe to build hyperscale data centers in Clark, Pampanga. The facilities, expected to be developed within three to six years, are planned to support cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads, and large-scale data processing.
According to PLDT Global president and CEO Albert Villa-Real, the hyperscale business is a game-changing opportunity not just in the Philippines, but on a global scale.
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said at least four foreign-based hyperscalers are looking into investing in the country but are still waiting for the developments of the May 9 polls before proceeding to their investment decision.
At the groundbreaking of its 11th and largest hyperscale data center in Sta. Rosa, Laguna on Friday, March 18, PLDT president and CEO Al Panlilio said the soon-to-be-built facility will be the biggest in the country with no peers in its class.
After successive announcements from local and foreign companies on data center projects in the country, Globe Telecom has joined the "hyperscaler" fray by disclosing on Wednesday, March 2, that it formed of a joint venture partnership with Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) and Ayala Corporation (AC) for the construction of data center projects in the Philippines.
